In a continued effort to support Maine’s new Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) systems, the NCC provided differentiated training for the educators of Northern Maine: An introductory training to SLOs, along with a Level 2 training on SLOs. Participants gained practical and research-based approaches to implementing SLOs, and received turnkey materials to share with [...]Continue Reading →

The Maine Department of Education, in partnership with the Northeast Comprehensive Center (NCC), will offer Student Learning Objective (SLO) training to school administrative units (SAUs). This is the second time this year that SLO training will be provided; the first training sessions were met with great success from SAUs. Student Learning Objectives are a part [...]Continue Reading →

The NCC supported the Maine DOE as they presented at the annual Commissioner’s Conference in Bangor, ME on June 27, 2016. The conference focused on statewide updates to the education system, including an ESSA overview, and was attended by superintendents, principals, teachers and legislators, among others. To view the materials presented at the conference, please [...]Continue Reading →

The Maine Department of Education in partnership with the Northeast Comprehensive Center held an SLO training session for CTE educators. Participants came from across the state, and included teachers, administrators, and district/regional directors. This centralized training in Augusta focused stakeholders on important issues of SLO quality and implementation. Continue Reading →

NCC has been collaborating with the Maine Department of Education as they develop a monitoring plan and protocols to support new program quality standards. One of the cornerstones of Maine’s monitoring plan is to provide feedback and support to sites in a timely manner that is based upon classroom observations and monitoring interviews and intrinsically [...]Continue Reading →

The NCC is collaborating with the SEA in Maine to create a more focused system of support to improve the quality of publicly funded preschool programs as the state rolls-out new program quality standards. Over the next several months, NCC will work in partnership Maine as they develop and pilot a monitoring plan and protocols that [...]Continue Reading →

By June 1, 2015, all states are required to submit a plan to the US Department of Education for ensuring that all students have equitable access to effective educators The plan identifies where gaps in equitable access to effective educators exist and how those gaps will be addressed. The Maine State Department of Education has [...]Continue Reading →